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going to let Logan win.
    “Then let’s plan a wedding,” my father answered.
    My father stood and offered his hand to my mother. She smiled and took it. The general stood behind them as they moved to leave the room. Our little meeting was over. I hoped it would be enough. I was so close to winning, and I couldn’t let Logan take that away from me.
    “Do you think it will work?” I asked Kye as we stood.
    “I don’t know. He’s changed my past too much for me to know what happened to you now. You didn’t marry Seth in my original past; maybe it’s what we need to change everything.” Kye was hopeful, so I had to be, too.
     
    I didn’t get the reunion that I wanted as Seth left with his father, but I was more than happy that he left Ty back in the room with me. It wasn’t fun to know Ty was meant as a wedding gift, but since Ty was going to stay with Kye and me, I did my best to not reject the offer and lose my best friend. We waited until my father left to sneak back to the gardens to talk more.
    As soon as we were away from watchful eyes, Ty turned and grabbed me in a bear hug.
    “Gods I was so worried about you,” Ty told me as he let me down.
    “Worried? Why would you be worried?” I pretended like everything was fine. In the back of my mind I kind of wished it was all fine, but it wasn’t.
    Kye led the way back to the pond that we had been sitting by before.
    “No. Why would I be worried when Logan cut you off from us? It just about drove Seti mad,” Ty replied and sat next to me. I liked this Ty. Not the “scared that someone was going to punish him for moving” Ty. My best friend Ty I knew in Minnesota. The real Ty.
    It had been too long that Logan had kept me away from my friends. Ty was the one that had been with me the whole time when the guys were sent back. I missed him greatly, and to be kept from them was torture. Ty was the older brother I always wanted to have.
    “I hated to do that to him, but Logan threatened to keep me away from everyone. He told me that if I didn’t cooperate, Seth would die, and I’d never learn how to keep you in the future. And besides, I couldn’t travel and worried a little he would take me off to another time. Even if I couldn’t talk to you guys, at least I wasn’t in a different time period,” I replied.
    Everything was easy with Ty. It felt like nothing changed between us, and he was still the same old friend that he was that helped me learn how to time travel.
    “Sorry, you got sucked back here. I didn’t have time to learn from Logan how to keep you guys safe. I really didn’t want you to come back here and have to live this life.” I sat beside him and placed my head on his shoulder. It was easy to forget how large he really was until I sat beside him and didn’t even reach above his shoulder I was now lying against.
    “Mari, you have to know by now that I can live this life and would a hundred times if it kept you safe. It isn’t safe with Logan. You can’t trust him.” Ty was warning me what I already knew. I should have trusted Ty and never allowed Logan to get me to believe he wanted to help. Ty had been cautious, and now I completely understood why.
    “But you aren’t free here,” I complained.
    It was my last regret of leaving the future I had grown up in. I broke my bargain and was sure Logan would never teach me how to keep Ty in the future and away from the past we were in now.
    “No, but now I get to stay with you. Maybe I’m still a slave, but the best kind of person to be an owner is one that doesn’t want to have slaves,” Ty replied. I know he was trying to make me feel better, but it still didn’t work. I didn’t want to own him. I wanted him to be free.
    “You know there’s something you can do,” Kye said.
    “About?” I asked.
    “Ty,” he replied as if I should already know. “If I heard correctly, he now belongs to you. You could always free him.”
    “What?” I asked in shock. I turned and looked at Ty.